{"id":1267692,"date":"2022-12-19T23:22:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T23:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/19\/karim-benzema-retires-from-international-football-after-missing-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T23:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T23:22:45","slug":"karim-benzema-retires-from-international-football-after-missing-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/19\/karim-benzema-retires-from-international-football-after-missing-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Karim Benzema retires from international football after missing World Cup \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Karim Benzema appears to have retired from international duty after missing the 2022 World Cup through injury, following France\u2019s defeat in the final.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>WHAT HAPPENED?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having been selected for Didier Deschamps\u2019 World Cup squad and heading to Qatar with the national team, injury derailed the 2022 Ballon d\u2019Or winner\u2019s tournament before it had even gotten underway.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0Drake loses $1 million on World Cup final although he predicted Argentina to win<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Benzema left the World Cup prematurely and had to watch on from the side as Les Bleus made it to the final against Argentina, but lost on penalties. He\u2019s since taken to social media to seemingly confirm his international retirement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">J\u2019ai fait les efforts et les erreurs qu\u2019il fallait pour \u00eatre l\u00e0 o\u00f9 je suis aujourd\u2019hui et j\u2019en suis fier ! <br \/>J\u2019ai \u00e9crit mon histoire et la n\u00f4tre prend fin. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nueve?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nueve<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7LYEzbpHEs\">pic.twitter.com\/7LYEzbpHEs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karim Benzema (@Benzema) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Benzema\/status\/1604845466981654532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>WHAT THEY SAID: \u201cI made the effort and the mistakes it took to be where I am today and I\u2019m proud of it! I have written my story and ours is ending,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE BIGGER PICTURE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Benzema has endured a tumultuous relationship with the French national team under Deschamps.<\/p>\n<p>He made his senior debut in 2007 and represented France regularly at major tournaments, before being snubbed from Euro 2016 and the 2018 World Cup. But following a near six-year absence \u2013 amid a blackmail case involving teammate Mathieu Valbuena \u2013 he returned to the national team in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>However, that chapter appears to have now closed for good, seeing Benzema retire with 97 caps and 37 goals for Les Bleus. It had been suggested that the forward would recover from his injury in time for the final, but he did not rejoin the squad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT NEXT FOR BENZEMA?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having had the majority of the World Cup to recover from an injury, the 35-year-old\u2019s sole focus will now be on getting his 2022\/23 campaign with Real Madrid back on track after a difficult, injury-ridden start.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Karim Benzema appears to have retired from international duty after missing the 2022 World Cup through injury, following France\u2019s defeat in the final. WHAT HAPPENED? Having been selected for Didier Deschamps\u2019 World Cup squad and heading to Qatar with the national team, injury derailed the 2022 Ballon d\u2019Or winner\u2019s tournament before it had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1267693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5835,262,1542,2444,15619,1529,14179,784],"class_list":["post-1267692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-benzema","tag-cup","tag-football","tag-international","tag-karim","tag-missing","tag-retires","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}